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Test 6 · The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others

A strategy game shows eastern Congo as nothing but mines, with no people. What is the real picture?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: strategy game, real picture · What happens: show, be · To what, where: eastern Congo

This is test 6 of lesson 28 «The wars the news shows less: Sudan and others» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A strategy game shows eastern Congo as nothing but mines, with no people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	strategy	strategy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	compound
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Congo	amod
6	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 shows	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 mines	cc
10	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nothing	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 people	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 people	det
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shows	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a strategy game		eastern Congo			as nothing	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent congo=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the real picture?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 picture	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picture	amod
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real picture						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The mines belong to Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mines	det
2	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 belong	nsubj
3	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Antarctica	case
5	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	the mines		Antarctica				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Congo has no metals at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 metals	det
4	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 metals	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Congo	no metals		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Millions live there, and fighting over mines has hurt families for decades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 live	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hurt	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hurt	cc
6	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 hurt	csubj
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 mines	case
8	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fighting	obl
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 live	parataxis
11	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurt	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 decades	case
13	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Millions			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight	gerund						over mines	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over mine=Theme
3	hurt	present · perfect	fighting	families			decade		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Patient

Option 4

Eastern Congo is an empty desert, so the game is right that only the mines matter there

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Congo	amod
2	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 desert	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 desert	cop
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 desert	amod
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 right	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 game	det
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 desert	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 matter	mark
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 mines	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mines	det
16	mines	mine	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 matter	nsubj
17	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	advcl
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Eastern Congo	a empty desert					tree rules
2	is	present	the game					right property	tree rules
3	matter	present	the mines			there			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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